Child Quotes
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Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.
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When you're living in the bush as a child, there's no television or no telephone, there's no neighbours and there's no talk much between people so you do, I suppose, develop to be more an individualist than probably you would now.
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Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.
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I was a poster child... for birth control!
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Though Dutch, I was considered of Aryan race and my child -- otherwise shamed as uneheliches Kind, conceived out of wedlock -- might just be accepted into the Lebensborn program and raised by a good German family.
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Mitochondrial DNA, which is a sort of abridged version of DNA, is passed directly from mother to child, so it's something that can be looked at to trace matrilineal descent.
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As a child, I amused myself by making up stories. I'd lie in bed when I was supposed to be sleeping and imagine other lands where people were doing fascinating things. By fifth grade, I knew I wanted to be a writer, but it took several more decades to really find my way as an author.
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I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of God's word becomes corrupt. Because of this we can see what kind of people they become in the universities and what they are like now.
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Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you?
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Mrs. Goldenthal's twin boys, Alex and Erno, were our age, and I discovered that they had been selected at Auschwitz for Mengele's experiments like us. Mrs. Goldenthan had stayed with them, and I found out later that she had hidden a younger child, Margarita, underneath her long skirt. She had come into the camp with the child hidden in her dress and during her entire stay there, even in the Nazi barracks where she had kept Margarita under the mattress during inspections, she and the other women had helped conceal the child.
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Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.
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Salvation is too heavy a load for a child to carry.
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Your new-caught, sullen peoples, / Half-devil and half child.
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For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child.
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17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.
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When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able to heal the wounds of the child and the adult and begin to live the lives we've always wanted to live.
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The death of a child is the greatest reason to doubt the existence of God.
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.
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Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.
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The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.
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The fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask - What's the best way to deal with this individual kid? - is often lost in the process, replaced by a point system that opens the door, or locks it, depending on the qualities of the crime, not the child.
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When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.
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I think we all wear some kind of mask. There are masks that shield us from others, but there are masks that embolden us, and you see that in carnival. The shiest child puts on a mask and can do anything and be anybody.
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It is never acceptable for us to be the cause of any child to feel unloved or worthless.
